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What the Big Picture Can Teach Us About Tiny Ocean Creatures
A 1,000-pound metal instrument—about the size of a two-seat Smart car—drops off...
March 2019
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Five Methods for Tracking the Ocean's Motion
From the time of Aristotle until the European Renaissance, a roughly 1,000-year...
February 2019
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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition
Oysters are powerhouses of water filtration. In a single day, one oyster can filter...
December 2018
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Fish Heart Out of Water
Under the lens of a microscope—in a shallow, glass well—spindly orbs pulse at...
June 2018
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Fishing for Plastic: Science in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
By now, you have probably heard of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The name...
April 2015
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Let's Get Our Hands Dirty This Women's History Month
In the ocean world, there are many women to celebrate during Women’s History...
March 2015
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The Oil Spill, Two Years Later
Two years ago last week, on April 20, 2010, an explosion on the oil-drilling rig...
April 2012
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Coral Reefs Need You
For those of you who have had the opportunity to visit a coral reef, you know that...
October 2010
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Animals and the Oil Spill: What Can You Do?
Lately we’ve been fielding questions from Smithsonian visitors wondering how they...
June 2010
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The Gulf of Mexico: A Deep-Sea Treasure Trove of Fishes
Dragons, flying fish, and dreamers. These may seem like creatures from a fantasy...
January 2018
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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales
When compared to dolphins and large baleen whales, beaked whales lose a bit of the...
November 2017
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Five Things The Gulf Oil Spill Has Taught Us About the Ocean
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is considered the largest...
April 2015